Margaret Grieco is Salaried Visiting Full Professor at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University and Professor of Transport and Society at Napier University. Amongst previous appointments, she has held the position of Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and Social Scientist in the Africa Region of the World Bank. She holds her doctorate on Information Networks from the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on transport, society and telecommunications with a particular focus on development and has advised both local and national governments and international agencies within this field.